Phone-Typing, Computer-Typing, and Handwriting: No Impact on Emotional Content By Writing Modality, Computer-Typing in Expressive Writing Yields Highest Word Count

The current experiment explored positive and negative emotional content in and word count of expressive written responses produced via varied writing modalities (hand, computer, or cell-phone). A one-way ANOVA indicated no significant difference in emotional content by writing modality, but word count was significantly greater in computer-typed versus handwritten responses.